surgery

After a busy Friday, the hospital had settled down.  The outpatient department was closed and ward and OB rounds were done.  It had been a long week, and I had made plans that evening to hang out at the guest house with new friends starting at 7pm.  I went home to grab dinner first, and since my wife and daughter were away, I popped open my laptop and enjoyed the company of Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey of the show “30 Rock” as I ate my spaghetti.  The first episode was quite compelling, and I still had a few noodles [...]

It was around lunchtime on a rather slow day at the hospital.  Some of the roads leading to the hospital had become impassable, due to the frequent mudslides that plague this area during the monsoon season. But the slow day was about to give way to a very challenging afternoon. “Have you heard the news?” Dr Sadichhya, one of our junior doctors, asked. “There’s a woman with an ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy which has implanted outside of the uterus) and a hemoglobin level of 6.5 who is bleeding and needs surgery.” No, I hadn’t heard the news. But clearly, she [...]